Someplace in Marx's works there is a passage in which he specifically
mocks the capitalist tendency to explain a phenomenon by explaining its
origins. Can anyone identify that passage for me? It may even be in Vol.
1 of *Capital*.
Carrol
Perhaps Carrol means the following footnote in Chapter 15,
the machinery chapter, of Capital I. Here Marx writes:
The English, who have a tendency to look upon the earliest
form of appearance of a thing as the cause of its existence, are in the
habit of attributing the long hours of work in
I saw that Paul gave one possible example. There are many. Here is one
that I used in my book on Marx's Crises Theories
According to Torrens: In the first stone which the savage flings at the
wild animal he pursues, in the first stick that he seizes to strike down the
fruit which hangs above h
